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Founded by MK Gandhi early in his career, the Natal Indian Congress
is one of the oldest political organizations in South Africa. This
book traces its course through colonial anti-Asiatic feeling, past
apartheid, and into the new democracy.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Turkey relentlessly persecuted any
form of Kurdish dissent. This led to the radicalisation of an
increasing number of Kurds, the rise of the Kurdish national
movement and the PKK's insurgency against Turkey. Political
activism by the Kurds or around Kurdish-related political demands
continues to be viewed with deep suspicions by Turkey's political
establishment and severely restricted. Despite this, the
pro-Kurdish democratic movement has emerged, providing Kurds with a
channel to represent themselves and articulate their demands. This
book is timely contribution to the debate on the Kurds' political
representation in Turkey, tracing the different forms it has taken
since 1950. The book highlights how the transformations in Kurdish
society have affected the types of actors involved in politics and
the avenues, organisations and networks Kurds use to challenge the
state. Based on survey data obtained from over 350 individuals,
this is the first book to provide an in-depth analysis of Kurdish
attitudes from across different segments of Kurdish society,
including the elite, the business and professional classes, women
and youth activists. It is an intimate portrait of how Kurds today
are dealing with the challenges and difficulties of political
representation.
At factory gates and cottage doors, co-operative guilds and trade
union branches, the radical suffragists of turn-of-the-century
Britain took their message to women at the grassroots level in
order to advance demands for equal pay, educational opportunities,
better birth control, child allowances, and the right to work.
Their strength lay in their democratic approach: opposed to
violence, they felt that the vote was the key to wider rights for
women.
One Hand Tied Behind Us draws from a wealth of unpublished
material, local newspaper accounts. diaries, handwritten minute
books, forgotten biographies, and interviews. It creates a vivid
and moving portrait of the women who, almost 100 years ago,
envisaged freedoms that are not secure even today. Widely
acclaimed, it has become a suffrage classic, and to mark its
twenty-first anniversary, Rivers Oram presents this revised edition
with a new introduction by Jill Liddington.
China's growth as a major international superpower means that it is
now more important than ever to understand how its politics work.
Rejecting familiar discussions of China cast in terms of
traditional culture, contemporary economic power or shifting
official ideologies, this forward thinking work instead analyses
the historically contingent mix of agents, ideas and institutions
that make up the country's political life. This approach allows
Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk and Peter W. Preston to pragmatically unpack
the logic of contemporary politics in China. They trace the
construction of the party-state system, note some of its major
re-orientations and consider its present condition. The book also
covers a range of hot policy topics including: internet
sovereignty; the One Belt, One Road initiative; the South China Sea
issue and the problems of the elderly empty nesters and left-behind
children. Offering a detailed yet concise treatment of key social
policy areas and other complex issues, this book will serve a broad
audience of students, researchers and professionals, irrespective
of discipline, along with all those with an interest in China or
Chinese politics.
Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State
collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen,
the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies.
For the past thirty years, Hintzen has been one of the most
articulate and discerning critics of the postcolonial state in
Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of
Caribbean politics, sociology, political economy, and diaspora
studies. His work on the postcolonial elites in the region, first
given full articulation in his book The Costs of Regime Survival:
Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination, and Control of the State in
Guyana and Trinidad, is unparalleled. Reproducing Domination
contains some of Hintzen's most important Caribbean essays over a
twenty-five-year period, from 1995 to the present. These works have
broadened and deepened his earlier work in The Costs of Regime
Survival to encompass the entire Anglophone Caribbean; interrogated
the formation and consolidation of the postcolonial Anglophone
Caribbean state; and theorized the role of race and ethnicity in
Anglophone Caribbean politics. Given the recent global resurgence
of interest in elite ownership patterns and their relationship to
power and governance, Hintzen's work assumes even more resonance
beyond the shores of the Caribbean. This groundbreaking volume
serves as an important guide for those concerned with tracing the
consolidation of power in the new elite that emerged following flag
independence in the 1960s.
He is a most unlikely revolutionary: a middle-aged, middle-class
former grammar schoolboy who honed his radicalism on the mean
streets of rural Shropshire. Last summer, this little-known
outsider rode a wave of popular enthusiasm to win the Labour Party
leadership by a landslide, with a greater mandate than any British
political leader before him. This new edition of the critically
acclaimed biography brings the Jeremy Corbyn story fully up to
date, setting out how this very British iconoclast managed to
snatch the leadership of a party he spent forty years rebelling
against and, despite rebellion from within his own ranks, managed
to galvanise millions to vote for him in the 2017 general election.
Engaging, clear-sighted and above all revealing, Comrade Corbyn
explores the extraordinary story of the most unexpected leader in
modern British politics.
In recent years serious concerns emerged over the state of European
democracy. Many democracy indices are reporting a year-on-year
drift towards less liberal politics in the countries of the
European Union. Polls regularly suggest that the voters are coming
to question democratic norms more seriously than for many decades.
Here, Richard Youngs assesses these risks as many analysts,
journalists and politicians stressed the danger of Europe
descending into an era of conflict, driven by xenophobic
nationalism and nativist authoritarians slowly dismantling liberal
democratic rights. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified
these fears. There is another side of the democratic equation,
however. Youngs argues that governments, EU institutions, political
parties, citizens and civil society organisations have gradually
begun to push back in defence of democracy. With each chapter,
Youngs shows how many governmental, political and social actors
have developed responses to Europe's democratic malaise at multiple
levels. Europe's democracy problems have been grave and
far-reaching. Yet, a spirit of democratic resistance has slowly
taken shape. This book argues that the pro-democratic fightback may
be belated, but it is real and has assumed significant traction
with various types of democratic reform underway, including citizen
initiatives, political-party changes, digital activism and EU-level
responses.
A comprehensive analysis of how the large corporation has impacted
national and global governance. Wilks has made an important
contribution to the literature on the changing political and social
role of business in contemporary capitalist polities.' - David
Vogel, University of California, US'Observers are increasingly
realizing that that the large corporation has become one of the
main institutions that govern our lives; the market economy, which
in principle prevents corporations from possessing political power,
today endows them with that power. Stephen Wilks here traces the
extraordinarily important implications of this fact, and makes some
sober proposals for tackling the problems it creates for democracy.
Others have noted this phenomenon; here at last is a thorough study
of it - detailed enough to satisfy the standards of social science;
worrying enough to command the concern of policy makers; and
written in an approachable style to attract the general reader.' -
Colin Crouch, University of Warwick, UK 'This is a book that needed
to be written and Stephen Wilks has the academic understanding and
breadth of practical experience to accomplish the task with
authority and conviction. This is an important book, not only
because it helps to fill a gap in a still under developed
literature on the political role of the modern corporation, but
because it raises important and disturbing questions about
contemporary democracy.' - Wyn Grant, University of Warwick, UK The
large business corporation has become a governing institution in
national and global politics. This trail-blazing book offers a
critical account of its political dominance and lack of democratic
legitimacy. Thanks to successful wealth generation and ideological
victories the large business corporation has become an effective
political actor and has entered into partnership with government in
the design of public policy and delivery of public services.
Stephen Wilks argues that governmental and corporate elites have
transformed British politics to create a 'new corporate state' with
similar patterns in the USA, in competitor economies - including
China - and in global governance. The argument embraces
multinational corporations, corporate social responsibility,
corporate governance and the inequality generated by corporate
dominance. The crucial analysis presented in this ground-breaking
book will prove invaluable for academics, researchers and both
under- and postgraduate students with an interest in the role of
the corporation in politics and society across a wide range of
fields including business and management (business ethics),
politics, political economy, sociology, corporate governance and
strategy. Contents: Preface 1. The Genesis of a Governing
Institution 2. The Corporation as a Political Actor 3.
Globalisation and the Enhanced Power of Multinational Corporations
4. Corporate Power in the UK: The Rise of the Corporate Elite 5.
The Politics of the New Corporate State 6. Partnership and Policy
in Britain s New Corporate State 7. Multinational Corporations as
Partners in Global Governance 8. Corporations, Culture and
Accountability 9. How Persuasive is Corporate Social
Responsibility? 10. The Explosion of Interest in Corporate
Governance 11. Conclusion: Fairy-tales, Facts, Foci and Futures
Bibliography Index
The second edition of Democracy for All: Educator's Manual is aimed
at young people, adults, students and teachers. The books explain
how the international community understands democracy, and explores
what democracy means to each of us. Democracy for All also explains
how government works in a democracy, how the abuse of power is
checked, how human rights support democracy, how democratic
elections take place, and how citizens can participate in
democracy. The objectives of the book are: To improve students'
understanding of the fundamental principles and values underlying
democracy in society; To promote awareness of the current issues
and controversies relating to democracy; To show students that
their participation can make a difference to how democracy
functions in their country; To foster justice, tolerance and
fairness; To develop students' willingness and ability to resolve
disputes and differences without resorting to violence; To improve
basic skills, including critical thinking and reasoning,
communication, observation and problem-solving. Democracy for All
uses a variety of student-centred activities, including case
studies, role-plays, simulations, small-group discussions, opinion
polls and debates. Democracy for All: Educator's Manual explains
how the lessons in the Learner's Manual can be conducted and
provides solutions to the problems.
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